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It’s funny how you can be down one day and then up the next.
Not funny like a monkey doing a little dance then running off with some rich blokes sandwiches is funny…
And not funny like Vic Reeves or Tommy Cooper or Stephen Fry or Eddie Izzard is/are funny…
And not funny like a small badger playing […]
My niece ME is 4 years old. As she is 8 months older than Miss M she asserts she is the big girl on an almost daily basis and at times talks to Miss M like she is the wise maiden aunt who has led a long life and seen much of the world.
On […]
So, now we’ve got that out of the way, wikihow has provided me yet again with some fabulous blog fodder in the form of this important and insightful advice on “How to be Comfortable Showering in Front of People.”
According to them; ‘Showering is natural. Showering with others might seem at first to be un-natural, […]
Our host today is the lovely Olive. Having been away for the majority of the weekend I kind of forgot to write my post last night as I was a tired lady. In fact, I didn’t even look at the topic till this morning. When I did I thought, oh my Bob, […]
Sometimes Miss E gets a little fed up of her little sister’s questions. They come thick and fast and are often repeated, ridiculous and random. Generally Miss E copes very well. She is a lovely big sister and answers with patience, sharing her nearly eight year old knowledge with thought and care, […]
I promised to show you just how tired I was yesterday. That’s a kind of abstract thing to show right? But I can do it as I am clever like that.
No I don’t have a special chart that displays levels of tiredness according to eyelid droopage or size and shade of under eyebags.
There […]
Tonight I read this to Miss M. At one point on this page I almost choked. Read it out loud, I dare you, and see if you can tell what few words stuck in my mind and made me feel a bit grubby…
Is that the worst line in a kid’s book ever?
Let’s read […]
The fabulous and inspirational Lisa from Lisa’s Chaos is our host today, and she wants us to talk about how weird we all are. She says:
“A quirk is defined as a peculiarity of action, behaviour, or personality: mannerism. We are all unique individuals, having quirks that help make us who we […]
Last night I had a dream.
It was yet again a slightly weird dream though perhaps not as weird as the one where I had the backside of a yeti or the one where I had, cough, relations with one of the three tenors, but a strange dream nevertheless. There is one part […]